We feel very passionately that this should not be hidden behind a paywall.
It is so important that the public and researchers in developing countries can access quality information about research.
#Research outreach free
Why do you charge contributors?Ĭharging the researchers we feature is the only way we can keep our content free to access for all readers. We think we offer great value for money and a valuable service to these researchers. In the past, these have been taken to top-level meetings, used as a handout for study participants and formed part of open-day proceedings. In addition to the broad exposure that working with us brings, each researcher receives a copy of their article that they can use however they like. As we are committed to barrier-free communication of research, that is something we have promised never to do.
#Research outreach for free
We’d love to offer our services for free but to do that we would have to pass the cost on to our readers or fill our website and publications with advertising. Do the researchers you work with pay for your services? Check out some of the testimonials we’ve received from the researchers we’ve featured in the past. We are proud of what we do and confident that we provide a good communications service. Instead, we ask the researchers we work with to pay for our services. We also didn’t want to clutter our website and publications with adverts. So, when we decided to set up Research Outreach this was one of the first decisions we made – no one, anywhere in the world, would have to pay to access our content. (We’re not the only ones who think this, check out Jason Schmitt’s film). Removing the paywall barrier to information about research is important to us. How do you keep all this content free to access? This is important as it means the articles you read are accurate in their description of the work. So, the researchers we work with have input at all stages of the process and have final approval over their article. We are not here to critique researchers’ work – we simply want to help them make it more accessible to the general public. We are also different to a traditional magazine or newspaper. We are not a peer-reviewed journal, although the vast majority of the work we feature has been published in this way. No, we operate in a unique space between traditional media outlets and peer-reviewed publications. Is Research Outreach a peer-reviewed journal?
#Research outreach plus
It’s easy! You just enter a few details about yourself, select your areas of interest and we’ll keep you updated with articles relating to your interests, plus each quarterly publication. Social media is also an excellent way of putting information about research in front of the public rather than a traditional academic audience. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2017, 62% of adults got news from social media. Social media has never been so important. Why do you put so much into your social media channels? a brochure for your lab, we will of course follow the conventions that best suit you. We like to stick to our house style across our platforms but if we are creating bespoke content for you to use e.g. That’s why you’ll see ‘behaviour’ with a ‘u’ or ‘distil’ with one ‘l’, for example. And for that reason we use UK spelling conventions across our website and printed materials as standard. We are based in the beautiful Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK. Most researchers we feature are working on government-funded research. We think it’s important to show a balanced view of the research community. We work with researchers at all stages of their careers. Are there set criteria for the researchers you work with? That means we put a lot of effort into our social media channels and in distributing articles to as wide and large an audience as we can. At Research Outreach, though, we believe that effective science communication is not just about helping readers understand it’s about sharing that knowledge as widely as possible. Good science communication happens all the time – whenever a lecturer inspires a student, or a newspaper prints a story that captures readers’ imaginations. The reader needs to be engaged – they should feel interested and inspired. What does effective science communication look like?Įffective science communication should break down a complex topic and explain it clearly and concisely. And, more importantly perhaps, we’re interested – we want to know what’s going on in those laboratories, on field work expeditions and in researchers’ offices. The public is, almost without exception, going to be affected by research outcomes. This means that the tax-paying public is supporting that research: they are key stakeholders. A large portion of research is publicly funded in most countries around the world.
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